Stopping fade to black

[N|K]

Does anyone know how to stop a surface from starting to fade out when moving away from it from a distance?

[fKd]

i believe it has to do with picmips, you can write a shader telling the engine not to draw em, its like a lod for textures, but again, engine pros will know more than me

adding something like

nopicmip

to the shader should work... i think...

sorry man

[N|K]

Nah it didn't work, but thanks anyway!

[AEon]

Tried nopicmip on the item pad textures for template_ae, because the fading of the edges used to look ugly. Did not change anything either.

[N|K]

What I am meaning is when something is far away and it fades to black.
In Quake & Quake II, it instantly dissapears. In Quake III I think the fade to black is Carmack's way of making the engine limitation look less cheap, but this is bad for me because I am using a glow effect that will be at a distance, and the surrounding surfaces are fading to black, so the lighting looks all wrong, but if I can switch it off it will be good.

[obsidian]

Do you have a screenshot of what you're talking about, because I have no idea what you're talking about. Quake 3 does not fade anything to black on long draw distances.

[o'dium]

Isn't noPicmip just used for texture quality settings, so that certain things (mostly 2d and UI stuff) don't lower in quality and blur out...?

In other words, its PICMIP not MIPMAP.

[obsidian]

Regardless, neither picmip or mipmap will fade anything to black, so unless he actually shows us exactly what's going on, there's no way for us to know exactly what's going on.

[Grenader]

Possibly portal surfaces

[^misantropia^]

Or crappy video drivers. Most integrated video chipsets do the bulk of the processing on the CPU so they take shortcuts here and there.